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The general director of the institute, Javier Solis Osante Renan, called the $91 million-peso project the most important line item in the 2016 budget.

It will take just over 12 kilometers of highway to cut around the charming, but slow-going towns. Drivers will save about 20-25 minutes on average. The roads will be 12 meters wide.

Celestún last inched closer to the capital city in 2012, when a Mérida-Tetiz highway was put into service. This route, stretching 24 kilometers, bypassed other towns that used to slow your trip to the beach: Caucel, Ucú and Hunucmá.

The new road will bring more vacationers to Celestun. I hope the authorities and business people will pay more attention to garbage pick-up and pest control before they arrive. The infrastructure of the town is fair but the upkeep is sorely lacking. It is a public administration and management issue not the fault of the place itself (which is wonderful)